Konstituisanje lokalne uprave u Niškom, Vranjanskom, Topličkom i Pirotskom okrugu 1876-1878
The Establishment of Serbian Local Government in the Counties of Niš, Vranje, Toplica and Pirot Subsequent to Serbian-Turkish Wars 1876-1878

Summary/Abstract: In the wake of the Serbian-Turkish wars of 1876-1878 and 1878 Congress of Berlin the process of establishing local government in the newly-liberated areas began. The process of incorporating the so-called “New Areas“ into the legal system of pre-war Serbia took five years (1877-1882) and went through two main phases: 1) the first phase began with the second Serbian-Turkish war in 1877, and lasted to the border demarcation between the principalities of Serbia and Bulgaria in 1878. It was marked by the establishment of provisional local authorities, carried out by the representatives of the Serbian government in the Supreme Army Command. In the second phase permanent local institutions were established in “New Areas“ in order to harmonize their administrative and judicial structure with the pre-war Serbia. That process was successfully completed by 1882 when several laws on local and judicial authorities were passed in the Serbian Assembly.

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